Jack Bales interview

<p>Tonight’s guest is Author Jack Bales. Jack is a recently retired Reference and Humanities librarian at the University of Mary Washington located in Fredericksburg, VA. He also for the past 40 years has been a writer with eight books to his credit covering a wide variety of subjects from Horatio Alger, Jr. to Willie Morris to the Chicago Cubs.</p> <p>He is also a member of the Society of American Baseball Researchers and has written numerous articles about his beloved Chicago Cubs for various publications.</p> <p>Tonight we will be discussing Jack’s latest release “The Chicago Cub Shot for Love: A Showgirl’s Crime of Passion and the 1932 World Series” which was released last week on June 21.</p> <p>The book tells the tale of Chicago Cubs Billy Jurges who was shot in 1932 by a woman named Violet Popovich with whom Jurges had been romantically involved and how his shooting set the stage for one of the most dramatic moments in World Series history</p>